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How To Create SharePoint Document Library Subfolders Programmatically

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Don’t you just love it when you’re slaving away at something that should be pretty straight forward but you just can’t figure it out? Well I just had one of those breakthrough moments and thought I’d share. I spent almost the entire day yesterday searching and trying different ways to add sub folders to Document Libraries programmatically to no avail. I was seriously pulling my hairs out. And then just 30 mins ago, I came across this blog post and now I can go take a 3 hour lunch. Here’s my variation of the code:

private void AddFolders(SPList list, SPWeb web)
{

String url = list.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl.ToString();

SPFolderCollection folders = web.GetFolder(url).SubFolders;

folders.Add(”Yay this works”);

}

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Written by Henry

August 15, 2007 at 9:38 am

Posted in SharePoint

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  1. I’m really new at sharepoint and a I wanted to know what is this SPList that you use in the method.

    ma

    12 May 08 at 5:41 am

  2. hey ma, please see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.splist.aspx

    Henry

    12 May 08 at 7:39 pm

  3. Hi Henry….

    I want to Create New Custom Document Library and add some SiteColumns or Content Types Programmatically….how can i do this…..plz help me out….

    Saurabh

    1 Jun 08 at 11:34 pm

  4. How could this be done in VB6 or VBA?

    Simon

    4 Jul 08 at 12:11 am

  5. Just curious - doesn’t this work?
    list.RootFolder.SubFolders.Add(”Huh”);

    Oskar Austegard

    28 Jul 08 at 12:43 pm

  6. Hey Oskar, it’s been a while since I’ve done any programming so I’m not sure. Have you tried it?

    Henry

    28 Jul 08 at 5:56 pm

  7. SPListTemplateType templateType = SPListTemplateType.DocumentLibrary;
    Guid listId = rootWeb.Lists.Add(”MyDocLibrary”, null, templateType);
    SPlist documentLibrary= rootWeb.Lists[listId];

    SPContentType objContentType= rootWeb.ContentTypes["MyContenttypeAdding"].Parent;
    documentLibrary.ContentTypes.Add(new SPContentType(objContentType, rootWeb.ContentTypes, “MyContenttypeAdding”));

    chanaka

    23 Sep 08 at 12:37 am

  8. Thanks Henry, this really helped!

    Dathan

    25 Sep 08 at 1:51 pm

  9. I was trying to find a vb.net way to create a sub folder. So I figured it out here it is

    Dim strfolder As String = “Test4″
    Dim strlist As String = “Documents”
    Dim strsite As String = “http://mossfe:8000/”

    Protected Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
    SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(AddressOf AddFolders)
    End Sub

    Private Sub AddFolders()
    Dim site As SPSite = New SPSite(strsite)
    Dim web As SPWeb = site.OpenWeb()
    web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = True
    Dim doclib As SPList = web.Lists(strlist)
    Dim folders As SPFolderCollection = web.GetFolder(doclib.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl).SubFolders
    Dim NewFolder As SPFolder = folders.Add(strfolder)
    End Sub

    Chears

    David Steadman

    14 Oct 08 at 4:40 pm

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